How to Use salve in a Sentence

salve

1 of 2 noun
  • Ready to swap thick salves and rich creams for lighter, more gel-like textures?
    — Lisa Desantis, Allure, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Each of these three works is most certainly a salve.
    — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The images, feelings, and words of this book sit on the heart like a warm salve.
    — Riza Cruz, ELLE, 11 Oct. 2022
  • How much is this a… not rebound, but a salve for her still-present grief over Cody?
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Apply a base shadow color, then top it off with a glossy cream or salve.
    — Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 19 Jan. 2023
  • But those types of games, along with scooping up the Aztecs, could offer a bit of salve.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2022
  • But at the moment that is inadequate salve for what has been lost.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Take time to put some salve on the wound that refuses to heal completely.
    — Simone E. Morris, Forbes, 27 May 2022
  • Watching Julia truss a goose or dress a salad niçoise felt like a salve.
    — Julie Cohen, Variety, 5 Sep. 2021
  • One salve for these anxieties could be a different kind of phone.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Another way to soothe your new tattoo is with a restorative salve.
    — Danielle Jackson, Women's Health, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The service promises a glimpse into the future, a salve for the soul.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • The thrilling prospect of travel and new experiences can be a salve.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Luckily, time tends to act as a salve, softening the sharp edges of grief.
    — Meghan Rabbitt, Health.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • This full-body grooming kit includes a bar soap, body wash, face wash, hand salve, shave cream, and hair pomade.
    — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 5 Dec. 2022
  • And though no one win can put out all the Cardinals’ fires, this one at least would be a salve on the burns.
    — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Such good humor is a salve to the novel’s abiding tragedy of loss and prejudice.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • The brand also has a salve that is certified organic as well.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Kean himself gets a tattoo hand-poked into his skin and applies medieval salves to his wounds.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Our little family became closer and, as for many, food was our salve.
    — Pooja Makhijani, Bon Appétit, 6 May 2022
  • An airy boutique for salves and cosmetics was a Brooklyn hot spot for more than a decade.
    — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The expectations, the hope is so high for that prescription to be the salve for their ills.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But consolidation is a short-term salve with long-term side effects.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • For Ogawa the play has been a kind of salve, a chance to really look under the proverbial hood.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • In so doing, the book becomes not just a testament to her efforts to heal, but a sort of salve for her pain.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Winning the overall title a few weeks later provided a bit of a salve, but not much more.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Cultivating a sense of wonder can be a salve for a turbulent mind.
    — Christina Caron, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • For the writers who have toiled for years, this moment in history is a salve to wounds of exclusion.
    — Patrice Gaines, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In the early weeks of the war, Ukrainians found salve in dark absurdist humor.
    — Nicola Fegg, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • However, the cast’s strong relationship has been a salve.
    — Kemi Alemoru, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2026

salve

2 of 2 verb
  • The wound to the volunteers on the boards is not so easily salved.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2024
  • But getting a final might have really salved him.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Had the German editor bought the rights to salve his own conscience?
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • In any disaster, responding quickly can help save people and salve the harm.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 15 July 2025
  • Part of what can be confounding about grief is that what salves one person does the opposite for another.
    — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
  • These are the sorts of wounds that Joe Biden has to salve as the new president reaches out to Asia.
    — Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Time, 18 Mar. 2021
  • And one of the best ways to salve that sting is to recognize the benefits to be gained from being more right into the future.
    — Tim Maurer, Forbes, 13 June 2021
  • There’s no perfect way to salve a blowout loss to your chief rival, particularly when there’s a title on the line.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 29 May 2022
  • This statement didn’t salve the ire of those who are not convinced by the sustainability claims of the proposals.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Hizzoner should help salve the wounds, some of them caused by his own reckless statements and lack of compassion for some specific constituents.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Her selection to the Jamaican national team helped salve that disappointment.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But my admiration for the portrayal swiftly salved my disenchantment with the portrayed.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
  • Each of these athletes has their particular struggle, but the idea that achieving the highest sporting honors cannot salve the pressures of elite athletic life is well established.
    — Talia Barrington, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • For the very voters who are feeling left out of Biden’s to-do list—young voters, voters of color, women—Ocasio-Cortez may be what salves those worries.
    — TIME, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But her ministrations aren’t quite enough to salve the imperial insecurities, as unrest threatens to unravel man and state.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
  • In the end, however, that unusual arrangement failed to salve Britain’s wariness about how the Chinese government could use Huawei’s equipment.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Though well received with several ovations, the appearance didn't serve to salve those wounds entirely -- with some saying afterward that his pep talk had actually exacerbated them.
    — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
  • But choosing Padilla also provided Newsom an opportunity to salve some of those relationships.
    — Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Internal divisions within Palestinian society and its leadership will also impede efforts to salve the situation.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The formula has been the go-to salve for Morgan Halaska, the marketing and communications director for a large brewery in the Upper Midwest, for years.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2022
  • Decades later, Reagan, a Republican, offered neoliberalism to salve the stagflation of the 1970s.
    — Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • But such prosecutions are incorrigibly inefficient, and the spectacle of Bashir obstructing efforts to expose his regime’s wrongdoing will hardly salve the country’s trauma.
    — Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 2 May 2019
  • This time, there should be white-hot passion for Democratic challenger Joe Biden, the candidate who would restore our moral base, our international standing, salve our wounds, and give us a sense that the nation is moving forward to a sunlit future.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2020

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